Kanellakis Award

Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 51% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

51%of all recipients are Jewish

15 documented recipients

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Daniel Sleator1999

Co-invented splay trees and amortized analysis of algorithms; Kanellakis Award (1999)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Robert Kurshan2005

Brought model checking to industrial hardware verification; Kanellakis Award (2005)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Phillip Rogaway2009

Founder of practice-oriented provable security in cryptography; Kanellakis Award (2009)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Hanan Samet2011

Authority on spatial data structures (quadtrees) behind digital maps; Kanellakis Award (2011)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Andrei Broder2012

Invented MinHash deduplication powering web search; Kanellakis Award (2012, 2020)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Robert Blumofe2013

Co-created work-stealing scheduling (Cilk) for parallel computing; Kanellakis Award (2013)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Amos Fiat2016

Israeli co-inventor of the Fiat-Shamir digital-signature technique; Kanellakis Award (2016)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Scott Shenker2017

Architect of internet resource sharing and software-defined networking; Kanellakis Award (2017)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Pavel Pevzner2018

Pioneer of the genome-assembly algorithms behind modern DNA sequencing; Kanellakis Award (2018)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Yossi Azar2020

Israeli theorist of online algorithms (Tel Aviv University); Kanellakis Award (2020)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Anna Karlin2020

Theorist of online and randomized algorithms for web caching; Kanellakis Award (2020)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Michael Mitzenmacher2020

Analyzed balanced allocations and Bloom filters used across the internet; Kanellakis Award (2020)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Eli Upfal2020

Israeli authority on randomized algorithms; Kanellakis Award (2020)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Avrim Blum2021

Foundational theorist of machine learning; Kanellakis Award (2021)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award

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Hugo Krawczyk2024

Argentine-Israeli co-inventor of HMAC, the authentication securing most internet traffic; Kanellakis Award (2024)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award